Monthly Archives: May 2020

May 31, 2020

• COVID-19 Impact on the Fashion Industry: Slow Down
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 5/31/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• The Federal Reserve’s Coronavirus Crisis Actions, Explained (Part 7)
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

May 30, 2020

• Links 5/30/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Riot or Resistance? How Media Frames Unrest in Minneapolis Will Shape Public’s View of Protest
  by Yves Smith 6:33 am

• Why New Infrastructure Is a National Imperative
  by Yves Smith 6:12 am

May 29, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/29/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• COVID-19 in Mauritius and Other Tourist Paradises: A Progress Report
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/29/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Death, Suicides, And The Pandemic Economy
  by Yves Smith 5:27 am

• Uber Destroys More Value: Demolishes Bikes from Failed Rental Businesses Rather Than Donate Them
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• Heiner Flassbeck: The Euro Arrangement Is Faulty
  by Yves Smith 1:38 am

May 28, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/28/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Yes, You Can Drink the Water: Clean and Safe Public Water Supplies. Microplastics, A Plea for a Modest Post Coronavirus Priority
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 12:55 pm

• Links 5/28/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• U.S. Declares a Vaccine War on the World
  by Yves Smith 3:31 am

• COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Surge: The Impact of Wisconsin’s In-Person Primary Vote
  by Yves Smith 3:10 am

• Coronavirus Bad Look at Grandview Medical Center ER in Birmingham, Alabama
  by Yves Smith 2:14 am

May 27, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/27/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• 5 Ways to Make Voting Easier for Everyone in America—Even in a Pandemic
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/27/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Political Scientist Tom Ferguson on Big Money and Social Conflicts in the Covid-19 Era
  by Yves Smith 5:59 am

• What Are the Three Concurrent Crises of the Coronavirus Depression?
  by Yves Smith 4:11 am

• How Covid-19 is Creating a Social-Distancing Version of War
  by Yves Smith 12:55 am

May 26, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/26/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Study: Hunters Kill Birds During Their Annual Migrations Through the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/26/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Nature Pimps for Fundamentally Flawed Gates-Funded “Swab Yourself” Covid-19 Test
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• New York Rent Strikes During the 1918 “Spanish” Influenza
  by Yves Smith 5:42 am

• Michael Hudson: Debt, Liberty and “Acts of God”
  by Yves Smith 4:36 am

May 25, 2020

• #COVID19: New Practical Results on Airborne Transmission Indoors
  by Lambert Strether 5:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/25/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Is There a Role For NGOs in the Transformation of Society?
  by Lambert Strether 11:55 am

• Links 5/25/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• If the Federal Government Won’t Fund the States’ Emergency Needs, There Is Another Solution
  by Yves Smith 5:55 am

May 24, 2020

• Call Any Vegetable
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 pm

• Links 5/24/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• The War Nerd: How Many Dead Yemeni Nobodies Does It Take to Equal 1 Wapo Contributor?
  by Lambert Strether 6:45 am

May 23, 2020

• Links 5/23/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Michael Hudson and Dr. Jeffrey Miron of Cato Debate Capitalism
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• Craig Murray Documents Abuse of Process, aka Kangaroo Court, via Butchered Indictment
  by Yves Smith 5:45 am

May 22, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/22/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Food Security: Prince Charles Calls for Furloughed Workers to Pick Berries; My Thoughts as a Former Tomato Picker
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/22/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Bernie Sanders Says It Is ‘Nauseating’ to See Corporations Praise Frontline Workers as ‘Heroes’ While Refusing to Pay Them More
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

• Wolf Richter: Week 9 of the Collapse of the U.S. Labor Market: Still Getting Worse at a Gut-Wrenching Pace
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

May 21, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/21/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Yanis Varoufakis: Have Merkel & Macron Just Announced a Eurobond-Funded Godsend for the EU?
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/21/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Brexit: Posturing and Impasse
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Sweden’s Covid-19 Experiment Looks Even Worse as Death Rate Rises, Neighbors Contemplate Cordon
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Capitalism vs. Safety, Health: An Old Story Again
  by Yves Smith 2:40 am

May 20, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/20/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Department of Justice, State AGs to Target Google for Antitrust Violations, WSJ Reports
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/20/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Climate Change: Hurricanes Getting Stronger; Cyclone Amphan Pummels Bengal
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Why We Need the Human Touch in Contact Tracing for Coronavirus
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

• Covid-19 Straw Breaks Free Trade Camel’s Back
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 3:55 am

May 19, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/19/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Exclusive: Countries To Face a ‘Wave’ of Corporate Lawsuits Challenging Emergency COVID-19 Measures
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/19/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• The Lockdown Protestors Are Not Working Class
  by Yves Smith 6:39 am

• How Germany’s Courts Might Destroy the Eurozone
  by Yves Smith 3:32 am

• Medicaid Providers At The End Of The Line For Federal COVID Funding
  by Yves Smith 2:16 am

May 18, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/18/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• U.S. COVID-19 Contact Tracing Programs Designed for Failure, Despite Bloomberg Money; Why Can’t the U.S. Copy the Lessons of Hong Kong’s Success?
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:50 pm

• Links 5/18/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Storks Hatch in UK for First Time in 600 Years – Why That’s Great News for British Wildlife
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

• Brexit: Yet More Chicken
  by Yves Smith 6:15 am

• The Economics and Politics of Social Democracy: A Reconsideration
  by Yves Smith 6:02 am

May 17, 2020

• Trump CFPB Appointees Use COVID-19 Crisis as Rationale to Weaken Consumer Protection
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 5/17/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Big Oil Taking $1.9 Billion in CARES Act Tax Breaks Aimed at Helping Small Businesses in ‘Stealth Bailout’: Report
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 5:55 am

May 16, 2020

• Links 5/16/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Because Culture Matters, There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Exit Strategy from Covid-19 Lockdowns
  by Yves Smith 6:57 am

• Coronavirus Dashboard: Updating the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
  by Yves Smith 6:29 am

May 15, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/15/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Contact Tracing Via Old Shoe-Leather Epidemiology While Spurning the Techno-Fix Fairy: How Hong Kong Quells COVID-19 Without Killing Civil Liberties
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 1:55 pm

• Links 5/15/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Wall Street’s Useful Idiot: Financial Times Shills for CLOs….as Fed Hasn’t Bailed Them Out
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• Reminder: When the Very Very Rich Are Done With Us, They Plan to Leave Us Behind
  by Yves Smith 6:35 am

• America’s Chilling Experiment in Human Sacrifice
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 4:25 am

May 14, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/14/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Reopening Isn’t Reopening—It’s Cutting Off Unemployment
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/14/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Public Pension Plans in a World of Hurt; Even Loyalists Warning of Grim Prospects
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• Congress and Corporations Join Forces To Crush American Small Business
  by Yves Smith 6:37 am

• Is EIA Data Disguising A Disastrous Decline In U.S. Shale?
  by Yves Smith 4:35 am

May 13, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/13/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Wealth Effects of Bailouts: A Quantitative Assessment
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/13/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco, Failing to Disclose Sponsorship and Misrepresenting Results
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• A Way To Make COVID-19 College Furloughs More Fair
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• Testing and the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
  by Yves Smith 6:39 am

May 12, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/12/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• US Commercial Real Estate Prices Plunged in April, Mall Prices Collapsed
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/12/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:58 am

• Coronavirus To Decimate Colleges and Universities
  by Yves Smith 6:50 am

• Early Precautions Draw a Life-and-Death Divide Between Flushing and Corona
  by Yves Smith 5:08 am

• From the Blitz to COVID-19, Our Rulers Have Got Us Wrong
  by Yves Smith 4:31 am

May 11, 2020

• Waiting for “Rooseveltian Relief”: An Oversimplified Framework for the Employment Situation
  by Lambert Strether 4:25 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/11/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• Links 5/11/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Coronavirus Magical Thinking, US Style: Contact Tracing Versus Masks
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Public Schools Collapsing into a Zoom Heap
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

May 10, 2020

• Surgical Masks: From Protection to Fashion?
  by Lambert Strether 2:25 pm

• Links 5/10/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Neoliberalism Is Over. Welcome to the Era of Neo-Illiberalism!
  by Lambert Strether 6:44 am

May 9, 2020

• Links 5/9/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• Tom Ferguson: Big Business Takes Cash as Workers Laid Off, States and Cities Go Bust
  by Yves Smith 5:19 am

• Mass Unemployment Is a Failure of Capitalism
  by Yves Smith 5:00 am

• From Juanita Broaddrick to Tara Reade: In Forty Years Has Nothing Changed at All?
  by Yves Smith 3:51 am

May 8, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/8/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Don’t Do It Again! The Swedish Experience With Negative Central Bank Rates in 2015-2019
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/8/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:57 am

• Why I’m Not Keen About Telemedicine, US Style
  by Yves Smith 6:46 am

• Modigliani Meets Minsky: Rising Inequality and U.S. Household Debt Since 1950
  by Yves Smith 5:15 am

• Retail Bankruptcies, Bailouts Put Spotlight on Private Equity
  by Yves Smith 4:49 am

May 7, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/7/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Puzzling Questions of the Coronavirus: A Doctor Addresses 6 Questions That Are Stumping Physicians
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/7/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• Hunger Rises Dramatically in America
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Economic Blow Of The Coronavirus Hits America’s Already Stressed Farmers
  by Yves Smith 6:53 am

• The Federal Reserve’s Coronavirus Crisis Actions, Explained (Part 6)
  by Yves Smith 4:37 am

May 6, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/6/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Betsy Sweet: “In Maine, We Live the Climate Crisis Everyday”
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/6/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• People and Jobs? Or Wealth? The Government Has To Decide Which To Prioritise, and There Is Only One Right Answer
  by Yves Smith 6:40 am

• The Eurozone in Crisis
  by Yves Smith 6:22 am

• Some Communities Are Being Forced to Fight School Closures and Privatization in the Midst of the Pandemic
  by Yves Smith 5:41 am

May 5, 2020

• In Quest of the May Day Strikes
  by Lambert Strether 4:55 pm

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/5/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• The Invisible Business Risk of the Covid-19 Pandemic
  by Lambert Strether 9:55 am

• Links 5/5/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• The False Dawn of Ending Coronavirus Lockdowns
  by Yves Smith 6:32 am

• Jesse Ventura Could Pose a Greater Threat Than Biden or the Democrats Believe
  by Yves Smith 12:39 am

May 4, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/4/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Tale of Two Cities Redux: HK to Ease its COVID-19 Restrictions, While NYC Situation Remains Dire
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 11:55 am

• Links 5/4/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Rubbish Is Piling Up and Recycling Has Stalled – Waste Systems Must Adapt
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:25 am

• Pandemic Profiteering: How the Military Goes to the Head of the Covid-19 Bailout Line
  by Yves Smith 2:10 am

May 3, 2020

• Universa Debunks CalPERS’ Defense of $1 Billion Tail Hedge Miss; Insider Accounts Expose Additional Misrepresentations
  by Yves Smith 10:23 am

• COVID-19 Lockdowns: Birds Singing, Flamingoes Flocking, Dolphins Dancing, Cleaner Air and Water
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 9:55 am

• Links 5/3/2020
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:55 am

• Big Oil Fears Keystone XL Ruling Means End of Easy Pipeline Permits
  by Jerri-Lynn Scofield 6:50 am

May 2, 2020

• Links 5/2/2020
  by Yves Smith 6:55 am

• We Found and Tested 47 Old Drugs That Might Treat the Coronavirus: Results Show Promising Leads and a Whole New Way to Fight COVID-19
  by Yves Smith 4:00 am

• Harmoniously Denied: The Wider Implications of China’s Censorship on COVID-19
  by Yves Smith 2:58 am

May 1, 2020

• 2:00PM Water Cooler 5/1/2020
  by Lambert Strether 2:00 pm

• Fed Drastically Slashed Helicopter Money for Wall Street. QE Down 86% From Peak Week in March
  by Yves Smith 9:55 am

• Links 5/1/2020
  by Lambert Strether 6:58 am

• More Public Pension Fund Pain: LACERS Reports Hit to Liquidity from Private Equity Capital Calls; Are Fund Managers Exploiting the Dumb Money Yet Again?
  by Yves Smith 6:54 am

• Water Should Be a Public Good, Not a Commodity. Catalonia Is Showing How
  by Yves Smith 3:38 am

• Is the Tara Reade Story Approaching Critical Mass?
  by Yves Smith 1:17 am